Some countries that are close to Europe that already hold Deutschemarks, clearly would automatically hold euros, those are countries in Eastern Europe mainly, a few countries in Africa.

We also confuse trust with familiarity.

Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.

Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate.

Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and majesty of everything from mountain ranges, deserts, and rain forests to the exquisite details in the design of an ordinary mosquito.

The prices of all imports would rise if the dollar depreciates.

Many people are blind to trust, not so much to its benefits as to its nature and the practices that make it possible.